You’ll earn this badge by writing detailed reviews that help people decide where to go.

Photographer

This badge is for sharing photos of places, so others can see the world on Google Maps.

Trailblazer

Here’s the badge for exploring. Earn it by being the first to add, review, or take a photo of a place.

Fact Finder

Earn this badge by checking facts, making edits, and answering simple questions about places to help people find the right information on Google Maps.

By sharing more, you can get upgrades for each one. For example, a Novice Photographer can become an Expert Photographer, and then reach legendary status as a Master Photographer. Your past contributions will be factored in too, so some of you may have already reached that status!

This feature is rolling out over the next few weeks. To see if it’s on your device right now, go to “Your contributions” on Google Maps for Android or iOS. There, you’ll see your progress toward each badge. Tap each one to see how to earn the more advanced version of your new badge.

@LucioV "So maybe the jobs will run for months." I'm thinking that you are suggesting that it will take months to get to the top tier of each badge? This is not a bad thing! We're Local Guides anyway. It gives us something to look forward to. I think the biggest [badge] concern will be the 50 review likes as this is utterly and completely out of our hands.

@Gabisdaddi no, I think that the jobs for calculating each badge for each user are highly time consuming! Consider, more than 50 million of LGs, and for each of them the jobs should determine wether if you have the first photo of a place, the first review, etc.etc.

I don't really need these badges (I will not lose anything and will not get anything, I will not do less or more for the project), but I find it unacceptable the deployment the function for almost 1.5 months.

Hi @SergeySud, Santa Claus just called me and said : don't worry, you'll received your update before Christmas :) It's just a new funny feature and as you said don't provide fundamental changes. Be patient we'll get it soon or later !

Yeah if you need to see your badges(anxious) to just know how well your contributions to the local guides program have been so far, you can do that by asking a local guide close to you who has badges to show you what yours look like too. What I mean is this, anyone who has badges would be able to see who has and who don't have badges. Just as I did to my friend@LucioV who doesn't have the badges yet.

You’ll earn this badge by writing detailed reviews that help people decide where to go.

Photographer

This badge is for sharing photos of places, so others can see the world on Google Maps.

Trailblazer

Here’s the badge for exploring. Earn it by being the first to add, review, or take a photo of a place.

Fact Finder

Earn this badge by checking facts, making edits, and answering simple questions about places to help people find the right information on Google Maps.

By sharing more, you can get upgrades for each one. For example, a Novice Photographer can become an Expert Photographer, and then reach legendary status as a Master Photographer. Your past contributions will be factored in too, so some of you may have already reached that status!

This feature is rolling out over the next few weeks. To see if it’s on your device right now, go to “Your contributions” on Google Maps for Android or iOS. There, you’ll see your progress toward each badge. Tap each one to see how to earn the more advanced version of your new badge.

You’ll earn this badge by writing detailed reviews that help people decide where to go.

Photographer

This badge is for sharing photos of places, so others can see the world on Google Maps.

Trailblazer

Here’s the badge for exploring. Earn it by being the first to add, review, or take a photo of a place.

Fact Finder

Earn this badge by checking facts, making edits, and answering simple questions about places to help people find the right information on Google Maps.

By sharing more, you can get upgrades for each one. For example, a Novice Photographer can become an Expert Photographer, and then reach legendary status as a Master Photographer. Your past contributions will be factored in too, so some of you may have already reached that status!

This feature is rolling out over the next few weeks. To see if it’s on your device right now, go to “Your contributions” on Google Maps for Android or iOS. There, you’ll see your progress toward each badge. Tap each one to see how to earn the more advanced version of your new badge.